ascending

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of ascend

adj

1. (attributive, not-comparable)Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)

   “Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.”

   “Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.”

2. (attributive, not-comparable)Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)

   “We used an ascending sort.”

3. (attributive, not-comparable)Leading or sloping upwards.

noun

1. (attributive)An ascent.

   “continual ascendings and descendings”